Sash-cord fastener.



No. 700,292. Patented M`ay-20, |902.

P. BARNUM.

SASH lGURU FASTEN'ER.

(Applicationvled :Dec` 10, 1901.)

(No Model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may oon/cern:

l UNITED STATES `PATENT f OFFICE.

PAUL BARNUM, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

sAsl-lr-CORD,l FASTEN En.v

SPECIFICATION arming part of Letters ratent No. l200,292, dated May 2o, v1902. y

i Application iiled December l0, 1901. Serial No. 85,312. (Novmodel.)

Beit known that I, PAUL BARNUM, a citizen of the United States, andga resident of the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sash-Cord Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to Vimprovements madein devices that are constructed to fasten the end of a sash-cord in the cord-groove of the sash; and it consists in a fastening device comprising certain parts -adapted for operation, as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the following description Which'explainsY at length the manner in which I proceed to construct my said device, reference is had to the accompanying drawings,` wherein- Figure l represents my improVedsash-cord' fastener fixed onthe end of the cord in a sash, a portion 0f the sash adjacent to the .cordgroove being shown in section. Fig. 2 isav The device is stamped out of sheet metal,-

with all its parts in one piece and with a central aperture for the rope. On opposite sides of the central aperture are two arms or gripping members, each of which is provided with a prongor prongs, both on the outer ends and at the base Where the arms spring from the metal surrounding the central aperture. The arms are bent at right angles to the body, substantially parallel with each other and at proper distance apart to readily admit the cord, which is introduced between the arms and passed through the central aperture. The spurs on the ends of the arms are bent inward, so as to stand substantially at right angles to the arms. On the upwardly-standing sides of the body outside of the ar'ms,but in substantially the same plane with the arm on each side of the device, are prongs present.-

ing sharp jpoints in an upward direction.

These parts `and features are clearly shownl -in the several figures oflftheaccompanying drawings, Where a indicates theA body of the fastening; b, the central aperture; d d, the

standing arms on opposite sides oftthebody, and e e the spurs or pointed extensions on the body outside of the standing arms. The spurs on the ends of the arms are indicated at f,

and the prong at the base of the arm is shown at g. y

Having thus fully described my invention,

Letters Patent, is-

W1." The herein-described sash-cord fastener formed of a snglepiece ofmetal comprising a U-shaped body having a central aperture in the bottom; side portions standing perpen-l dicularly to the bottom part and having spurs on their outer ends projecting inwardly; and

what'l claim as new, and desire to secureby n prongs on the sides of the body beyond the side portions, standing upwardly in planes parallel with `the side portions.

2. The herein-described blank, having the following parts integral with one another; the

body'part a having the central aperture b,

vthe arms d d, `terminating in pointed spurs;

the prongs@ e on the sides of the arms; and

the prongs g; saidY parts forming when bent a U-shaped structure, substantially as described:

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing wita nesses.

PAUL BARNUM.

Witnesses HARRY J. LAsK, EDWARD E. OsBoRN. 

